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The best age for innovative discoveries is youth, and this seems to be a generalizable trend.
Historian of science Adam Rohusen collected bibliometric data from OpenAlex and calculated an index of the most significant articles for 208 Nobel laureates (n = 1446 articles). The calculation revealed a monotonic decline in scientific activity with age, approximately linear. After 50 years a strong decline is clearly evident. The best scientists seem to do their most inventive work when they are young. Moreover, with age, one's own discoveries are quite refined, incl. with the help of subordinates. (Rochusen, who was already a publicist, recalled that Newton published the laws of motion in his early forties, but retired from active research in his fifties. Einstein came up with the theory of general relativity at the age of 36. Darwin completed all his conceptual work by the age of 30, and then spent his long life worrying about what others would think of his theory of clearly malleable ingenuity. geniuses).